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The word faith comes from the Latin fides which means trustworthy. The word ‘confide in’ has the same root word with the word faith. When you have faith in something or somebody, it means you confide in that thing or person that they will serve you confidentially and that you can have confidence that they will do their best to do what they supposed to do and to keep their promises.

Having faith is not the same as believing in fairy tales. While the fairy tales fascinate us, faith will scare us. You only need to use your imagination if you want to believe in a fairy tales, but you need to have more than courage to be able to have faith. Fairy tales are created as a feel-good make-believe story that can make us fly to the moon. Faith, on the other hand, will knock us down with the hard reality of the truth.

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One of the rules that have become famous even to non-Christians is this

You reap what you sow

However, the ironic thing is that even though this principle is widely known around the world, most Christians do not take this into considerations. Instead, they tend to outgrow the calculative spirit. The spirit that demands something in return. The spirit which epicenter is on me, myself and I. How ironic …

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How to find an encouragement ?

The answer supposed to be very simple right: God and the Bible.

However, normally I also find encouragement from our brothers and sisters in Christ, friends, family, or even strangers (like what I post last time here).

Being by nature outgoing, I tend to love talking rather than listening. I guess this has been less and less lately, although it is still by nature happening so :). But the truth is, which one it is, as long as we talk about God and His Word, I found that I can always find enjoyment and encouragement.

Again, I would like to thank God for …

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This is taken from my blogpost (williamliem.blogspot.com):

One of Indonesian air flight carrier, Adam Air, has been up in the headline news of Indonesian papers for a couple of days now. As of today, it is being grounded from flying its plane due to its internal management problem. More news in Indonesian: jawapos.

On the other hand, Easter is coming … It reminds me of the bunny chocolate that I received at workplace last year when I received another one today. It’s such a great thing to know that Easter is widely celebrated in Australia, even though it might be ‘just-another-holiday’ for most of them.

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My husband often reminds me with this kind of expression sentence: The Other Grass at the neighborhood might not be greener than it looks. I absolutely agree with him.

Most people see other things those are not theirs from the outside. What they see that is what they think. For an example: I was a Full House Mommy for my little daughter. I really enjoy raising her by myself. I learned many new things in raising my baby but most of my friends always asked me when I would start to work again. They thought with my busy life as a worker woman, it could make me more valuable and expand my social life with the others. I told them that raising a baby by myself without any family members in my side in USA was very difficult (I am from Indonesia). It is different situation and condition with them (in Indonesia) which they have family and relatives who can help them whenever and whatever they need. But they still didn’t understand. Once again I told them that someday when the time came and GOD permitted, I would work again. It was true. When my little daughter was 3 years old, I got my first job at WALMART Super Center and couple months after that I became Managing Editor of The On-line News www.kabarindonesia.com. What a surprise! But again, many friends finally could not believe it how I could manage my times between my work, my activity and my family. I said, “I have discipline! I know it is very hard, but I am a kind of person who has high discipline and I enjoy everything what I am doing right now, so there is no problem with me.” The Problem is them who always see something outside the scene and think it is better than its scene itself.

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